Hostmonster has been operating since 1996 and is one of the oldest web hosting provider with an excellent feedback. For what is worth, Host Monster and Blue Host are owned by the same company. Both offer almost the same support, configuration and price as well. They own and operate their own data center with top end servers and excellent infrastructure.

HostMonster has a LOT of features to offer at cheap price. Consider these; UNLIMITED DOMAINS, Cpanel with Fantastico, Domain Name, Shell Access(SSH), Custom PHP.INI Files, 100MySQL Databases and the list goes on. Frankly, this is more than what any advanced user will ask for.

One thing that I really love about Hostmonster is because users are allowed to control almost everything related to their domains all by themselves.

So if, at one point, you decide to extend your expiration date or you want to add privacy protection to a particular domain, you can always do that via the domain manager inside the control panel. Unlike some other hostings, you may need to open ticket and wait for their staffs to do it on your behalf.

In term of performance, HostMonster claims to host all their hosting accounts on latest Quad Opteron Servers, backed with backup UPS and generators with all servers are put on 24/7 monitoring. Hostmonster also offer OC-48 backbone connection for all the servers. Personally, I'm extremely happy with the overall performance of HostMonster and after almost a year with it, I never experience any down time on 6 domains (not that I'm aware of).

Get more details about Hostmonster over at host monster review.

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I thought the domain transfer would bring down this blog momentarily but it wasn't; all files and databases were backed up and transferred smoothly and quickly. Please bear in mind, the transfer is not fully propagated as just yet, so you might notice some hiccups when you browse this blog.

With this new hosting I only need to pay $30 for 400 GB bandwidth, 10 GB space, 256 MB (min), 768 MB (Burst) with 2 dedicated IP and on top of that an extra of $5 for cPanel/WHM; roughly one third of what I pay in Siteground. There are lot of things that I need to explore inside the WebHost Manager (WHM) and I'm pretty excited with this new stuff. The FTP access is quick (compared with Siteground), the loading is fast, the support is superb, so I hope eches.net will reside in Knowhost for quite some time.

On the other note, lately this blog lacks of post because I'm at the middle of something and this new hosting transfer only adds up to the procrastination. But don't worry it will be back on track very soon.

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But what really dictates a good web hosting rating site? When we talk about a good rating site, generally it comes down to the fundamental aspect of this industry; independent customer review. If this important element is in presence, you are indeed hanging out at the right place before settling down with your new hosting.

If you are looking for a web hosting, try to pay a visit on WebHostingRating.com, a web hosting directory that starts taking shape in providing reliable independent reviews. As we already see in other websites alike, WebHostingRating offers independent review from web hosting existing customers and at the same time provide additional information to further help potential customer in making decisive decision.

Basically, the top-ten-rating web hosting awards system implemented in WebHostingRating is categorized according to Unix Hosting, Windows Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Collocation Hosting and Managed Hosting. The assessment is based on customer satisfaction, affordability, reliability, up-time and technical support.

One important element in running a successful web hosting rating site is the existence of web hosting tutorials aiming at potential customer ranging from novice to expert. The articles are primarily aim to new webmaster who might not well versed with several jargons used in hosting specifications. This will definitely give them a better insight of what hosting they really look for. These articles of course are not limited to newbies as some articles provides tips like choosing a domain, cheap hosting vs expensive hosting and many more.

When I first visited this site couple of weeks ago, obviously WebHostingRating site is relatively new in the industry (judging from broken links that appear on several links). Having said that, this site rapidly progresses as many empty spaces had been filled and gaining more reviews as I'm writing this post.

WebHostingRating is really a good start if you are currently thinking of getting a hosting. Cross check with other sites and forums, you will eventually find a hosting that is able to cater you need at the affordable price.

And hey, if you are currently subscribed to a hosting, you may want to share your experience with the hosting company with the whole world. Sign up and get your review up on WebHostingRating.

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Yesterday, eches.net was again hit by consistent surge of traffics. While happy looking at the positive development indicated by Google analytics, I was shocked to see a steep slope of yesterday's traffic. Email from Siteground confirmed that eches.net was suspended for hitting the capped level again and causing poor performance to other Siteground's client hostings.

I tried to do a quick transfer to a VPS provider (Knownhost) but I ended up running in the same circle again and again (failed to propagate the name servers etc). I must say VPS is totally a new environment and there are lot of things to be learned. Taking the situation into consideration, I guess it must take at least 2 days to get everything properly setup. 2 days of down time carry too much stakes. The simplest way to get around the problem is by purchasing VPS from Siteground but it costs me a whopping $99 a month!

Eches.net definitely won't dwell long enough in this VPS since there are other cheaper VPSs but provide superb performance. I probably try Slicehost; it's affordable. Starting with $38/month you can have the same specifications as what I have now.

Frankly, I believe there are several companies that are specialized in VPS and dedicated server host and that explains why I start to revisit several hosting review sites that I used to visit long time ago. If you plan to own your first domain, VPS is not for you yet; look no further than to find cheap web host (shared hosting).

I will keep you posted with my new quest on finding suitable VPS for my blog. Don't forget to subscribe my feed.

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There are few credible hosting review sites that I visited recently before I made up my mind to buy a hosting package at Hostgator. Web Hosting Geeks is one of them.

Judging from its look, it has a simple yet vibrant logo at the top, giving visitors a good impression on its credibility. Yup, I agree. Design is not the concern of many people as we seek for a good hosting. Bear in mind though, great overall design usually reflects on the quality of a particular website.

As we get down to the page structure, obviously, the navigation is categorized systematically according to budget, nature of website (forum, mini site, blog etc), rating, award, server platform and many more. Well defined categories will definitely helps users in making apple-to-apple comparison and hence better decision making.

Apart from that, there are 3 primary qualities that make Web Hosting Geeks stands out above the rest.

Independent Reviews submitted by Hosting Customers – People can sure read the brochure from hosting websites about all the ‘good’ things related to their services but do they really live to the expectation? The best way to judge the real performance and quality of a hosting is by referring to reviews and ratings cast away by their existing customers.

As more web hosting reviews and ratings could be gathered, it effectively builds up into an independent pool and reliable source of reading for potential customers.

Up-to-date Uptime Monitoring – This is a unique feature that can hugely assist bloggers and webmasters in choosing hosting company for their websites. Frequent downtime might be a major turn off to your visitors and it also reflects how bad a company is in providing guaranteed uptime.

Quality web hosting articles - Here’s the best part of this site. While advanced webmasters can easily decide of what they want for their websites, this is not necessarily the case for newbies. Going through the articles will definitely give a better insight of what are you dealing with and it will effectively guide you into making sound decision.

Final Words
This web hosting review site serve good comparison and guidelines to you in deciding which hosting company to go for. Before making your final move, it's advisable to go through more similar sites to see more options as you might find better deal for your websites.

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What I like the most about Siteground is its customer service support. After 2 years I had issued 17 tickets regarding several issues ranging from domain transfer to technical stuffs and they never failed to deliver responses in a timely manner (7 minutes on average). In one special issue, my domain was used to be suspended because of spamming, originated from a forum that's setup but not properly maintained. Luckily the problem was solved within 24 hours and in a very professional way.

Fantastico, is a feature in Siteground that can be proud of. You can install most of well-established CMS and PHP scripts on the fly with just few clicks. Yeah, I agree, it's better to setup the scripts manually since it can give you a better insight of goings on in the scripts and it comes handy when you need to fix a problem should they occur but fantastico will give you the flavour of operating, say, a CMS (Joomla). From the point onwards you can treasure youself on how to setup the script manually on your own.

The space and bandwidth? For me, it's more than enough. 40 GB of space and 900 GB of bandwidth are so enormous that I can barely scratch the small fraction of those capacities. With all the features and if you are serious about bringing massive traffic into your website, I would recommend you this hosting. Please bear in mind, if you are going to have few domains reside in the same hosting, this might not be a good place as the addition of 1 addon slot itself will cost you $30 a year and on top of that you need to pay extra few bucks for the extra domain.

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For what it's worth, I'm lurking on few forums such as DigitalPoints and Dnforum where discusssion about domain, IDN domains and few other jargons I never come across before take place. If you looking for things related to SEO, buying one way backlink, Adsense, affiliates and things related to optimising your websites, DigitalPoints is the best place to be.

If you looking for infos related to domain name registration, trademark law, trademark registration and thing related to domain, DNforum seems to be the best spot to gain extra knowledge from.

Do you have any suggestion of cheap domain hostings whereabouts?

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